Kingfisher Oklahoma

This is the final edition of the Times & Free Press for the 2024 calendar year.As this year comes to a close and before we dive too deep into 2025, we wanted to take a look back at the stories that made 2024.There were changes at the top at both the Kingfisher police and fire departments.

The next edition of the Times & Free Press will be printing early due to New Year’s Day falling on Wednesday this year.The Jan. 1, 2025, edition will print Monday afternoon.County subscribers should receive the edition in the mail Tuesday.

Kingfisher County commissioners approved the bid of Midwest Printing Co. of Sapulpa to provide ballots for county elections in calendar year 2025 at their meeting Monday.

If you’re ho-ho-ho has lost all its punch, then you’re not alone.That was intended to mean that I’m tired, but then again, what I’m really thinking is what I can’t remember. Or, why I can’t remember, especially, but not limited to, people’s names!

On Christmas Day, 2024, we in America have much to be grateful for: For a country where liberty is still valued and where prosperity is still possible.For our families, friends, loved ones, colleagues and coworkers.For the kindness of strangers.

The drama surrounding the government funding deadline escalated Thursday when President-elect Donald Trump attacked Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas. The shocking development came as Trump insisted on including a debt limit increase, which Roy firmly opposes.

from behind the plowHow would teaching children moral lessons hurt?Oklahoma State Supt. of Schools Ryan Walters has called for a series of steps to promote Christianity and western heritage in every school classroom, including a display of the Ten Commandments.

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I’d like you to settle an argument for me concerning a question that’s been nagging me for quite some time. It is a deep philosophical question that has been debated back and forth for centuries, ever since Socrates and Plato were running cows over in Greece.

Fred Lucas @FredLucasWH[ Fred Lucas is chief news correspondent and manager of the Investigative Reporting Project for The Daily Signal. ] Two dozen FBI confidential sources were part of the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan.